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WON NEWSLETTER: October 4, 2021 Observer Newsletter: WWE Extreme Rules review, G1 Climax updates

WWE’s Extreme Rules show on 9/26 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH was decent. Most of the matches were good, but there was nothing blow away.

The show was built around two bouts, Roman Reigns vs. Demon Finn Balor for the Universal title and Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair for the women’s title. Both had gimmicked finishes.

The Demon match ended with Demon ont the top rope when the top rope suddenly collapsed and he fell into the ring injured, and got pinned by a spear. The bout had been the most exciting on the show, but at one point the idea was that Demon had died. Then his music played and he acted as though he was resurrected, and in fact, that was the verbiage used, and he made a comeback until the rope broke.

In the Smackdown women’s title match, Belair powered out of the disarmer and set up the KOD when Sasha Banks ran into attack Belair for the DQ. Banks also laid out Lynch after the match to set up a three-way program.

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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE

WWE

  • Riddick Moss is now going by the name “Madcap Moss” on WWE television. On last week’s SmackDown, Moss returned and aligned with Happy Corbin. Corbin said last night that Moss keeps him happy by telling him jokes. Moss helped Corbin defeat Kevin Owens on last night’s show.
  • On Sippin’ The Tea with Ariane Andrew, Nikki Bella said doctors as of now have her on the retired bench for life: “I would love one day, like when Matteo’s maybe three, and he knows it, to have my son be ringside while his mom kicks ass. That would be amazing to me. But because he is my everything, I have to listen to the doctors and as of now, they’ve put me on the retired bench for life. So, it would take a lot of scans, x-rays, and all this different stuff for them to actually approve me to have a run and so that would be unlikely — that will be years down the road.”
  • Brie spoke about Bryan Danielson’s decision to sign with AEW: “I have to tell you, all summer long, he kept contemplating, kept going back and forth. He took the summer off and I just remember every other day, he honestly didn’t know where he was gonna end up, and then just finally, one day it spoke to him, he felt it. Because I was like, ‘I am not helping you make a decision. You’re 40 years old, this is probably going to be your last run. So you have to just let your heart tell you where to go.’ I’m like, ‘Just because I’m with WWE, doesn’t mean you have to be there,’ because I don’t know if I’ll make a comeback. To be honest, I told Nicole, maybe in a year or so. But like right now, my life — we’re so busy with our companies and the kids, like taking Birdie to school. That’s a whole thing in itself.”
  • In an interview with Ariel Helwani, Pat McAfee said his SmackDown commentary role isn’t that profitable for him but he does it because he loves it:

And now, getting a chance to sit next to the greatest of all-time in Michael Cole, I mean I just go out there and have a blast. It’s not a profitable thing for me, the SmackDown. I mean aside from being in front of three million people every Friday night which is incredibly huge, that’s a massive commercial. When you’re talking about just strictly cash in pocket, like that is not that profitable of a thing for me. For me, I’m doing it because I love it so much. I have so much fun, I enjoy it. There’s been a couple things obviously that have been told to me like, ‘Hey, do this, do this, try to do this’ and I try to curtail it and keep it in there but anybody that says you get a chance to hear a billionaire speak into your brain whenever you’re talking about his show and acts as if that’s a bad thing, I think that’s incredibly short-sighted. Getting a chance to chat with Vince McMahon, even if you think he’s whatever; a lunatic or whatever. This is one of the biggest self-made dudes in the history of the world so, I take it as an incredible opportunity and I’ve been in football and soccer where coaches have said terrible things to me. So I almost have a callus build-up so, if Vince McMahon was to come into my ear and say some of the things that people have said have happened in the past, I think my natural reaction would be to almost laugh. Like this sounds bad but it will be like, ‘Okay, all right. I get it. I get it.’ But I look at that as an incredible opportunity at something that’s really cool and very thankful that they’ve let me kind of do my own thing in there.

  • McAfee also said he assumes he’s going to wrestle another match at some point:

I mean first minute I’m in that match, I do a moonsault and I don’t turn my feet out so my toe just goes straight into the mat, fracture my big toe literally the first minute I’m in there and then obviously with the flip off the top and in the match with Adam Cole, I got kicked so hard in the face in the middle of that thing. I mean it was — my whole body was incredibly sore. The amount of respect that I had for every woman and man that gets in the ring after my first match — I mean I obviously had massive respect for them but it grew. I mean I’m a delicate flower but, let’s assume I’m probably gonna get back in there. I mean let’s assume at some point. I gotta win at some point, you know what I mean? I can’t just be completely defeated in there but my body was beat up dude. I was very sore.

  • Riddle appeared on this week’s episode of WWE After the Bell. He spoke about what he’s learned from Randy Orton: “Randy, over the time we’ve been working together, he’s taught me so much. The way he moves in the ring, I think for me being from the indies, you have a faster workrate. You’re trying to get everything in. You’re only given a certain amount of time. You’re trying to do everything you can do, instead of making the most of what you’re doing. Working with Randy, I feel like instead of killing myself, which I still do, but I think I’m getting the most out of doing what I do now. That’s the biggest thing I’ve learned from Randy.”
  • WWE’s YouTube channel uploaded The Undertaker vs. Randy Orton for the Undisputed Championship from the May 30, 2002 episode of SmackDown, Undertaker & Kurt Angle vs. John Cena & Brock Lesnar from the October 2, 2003 episode of SmackDown, and Rey Mysterio vs. Finlay from No Mercy 2007

Other Wrestling

  • During his appearance on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, CM Punk discussed working with Powerhouse Hobbs: “We’ll peel back the curtain a little bit here, which it is what it is. I think I need to show a very — just different looks, right? I didn’t dream in my wildest imagination I could be this big of a babyface so to speak. But it’s pretty crazy and I think we need to ride the wave and I never liked baby-baby matches. I always felt like somebody needs to be the heel a little bit and I don’t have any of that. With Will Hobbs, I got a guy that’s gonna knock my dick in the dirt and I’m gonna get to sell. I just hope there’s some kids in the back watching that go, ‘Oh wow. It’s cool to sell’, you know? Because I just think of Ricky Steamboat, one of the best sellers of all-time and just the way he — it was an art and really trying to make some simplistic stuff and get the most out of very little and I’ve been impressed with Will Hobbs. You know, the way he moves and I think anybody can see that he has potential, you know?”
  • GCW uploaded their countdown special for Jon Moxley vs. Nick Gage.
  • Matt Cardona will put his GCW career on the line as he challenges for Effy’s Internet Championship at Fight Club: Mox vs. Gage. Effy won the title from Cardona at GCW’s Get Lost Alot last week. Fight Club: Mox vs. Gage is taking place at the Showboat Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, October 9.
  • Josh Barnett will be in action at Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 7 in Los Angeles on Friday, October 22.
  • Dean Muhtadi (formerly known as Mojo Rawley) said that he’s going to make a major announcement on Monday centered around him signing with “a certain three-letter company out there.” Muhtadi said:

Well, it’s coming, we’re working some things. Actually, I can tell you, come Monday I will be making a major announcement centered around my signing with a certain three-letter company out there. I’ll keep you all posted. [Laughs] Who knows what it’s gonna be. I guess y’all have to see on Monday.

I want to get back in the ring as soon as possible. I’m just doing some other things first, taking advantage this free agency period. It’s kinda — grow myself and my brand every way that I can in ways that I haven’t been able to while I was under a WWE, or even an NFL contract.

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